Sola Experientia: The Bas Van Fraassen Interview

Kyle Jackson

Abstract

Bas van Fraassen is McCosh Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His research interests straddle philosophical logic and philosophy of science, with special interests in empiricism, (anti-)realism, probability, foundations of relativity and quantum physics, religion, and philosophy of literature. His publications include The Scientific Image (Oxford 1980), Laws and Symmetry (Oxford 1989), Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View (Oxford 1991), and The Empirical Stance (Yale 2002). For CV, cat and climbing lore see his website: http://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/.

Interviewed by Kyle Jackson, Chief Editor.

Special thanks to Chloe Armstrong for her invaluableassistance in the formulation and editing of the interviewquestions.